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Rotor Blade
 
Rotor Hub

Our Wind Turbines

The Generation Process

A wind turbine operates on a simple principle: The wind turns the blades, spins a drive shaft which delivers the motion required for a generation unit to produce electricity by using the motion to create a magnetic field and generate an electrical current.

Rotor Blades - a rotor’s three blades are made of fibreglass-reinforced epoxy. The blades are aerodynamically designed so as to allow the wind to pass over them causing uplift and the rotor begins to turn, creating kinetic/slow rotational energy.

Rotor Hub - a rotor’s hub is cast in nodular cast iron and acts as the interface between the rotor and the main shaft with a flange connection.